The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-13
TIE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH
SHOCK of earthquake was felt at FL
PasO, Tex, on the Sd, which lasted about
two minutes. For probably two minutes
preceding the shock many persons no
tlced distinct and offensive smell of sui
| phur. An earthquake shock was also felt
at Albuquerque, N. NJ.
ONE man was crushed to death and five
others badly hurt by the caving of a gravel
bank near Fort Worth, Tex, recently.
! A PREMATURE blast caused the death of
| twelve men in the CoOsa tunnel of the
| Georgia Central railway extension on the
4th.
/ THE Kentucky Democratic State cOnven-
tion met at Louisville on the 4th. Resolu-
| tions endorsing Cleveland's administration
were introduced. General s. E. Buclzner
was nominated for Governor.
A FIRE in Julia street, between Magazine
and Camp streets, New Orleans, recently
| destroyed a cistern making establishment,
/ three brick buildings, a boarding house, a
double frame cottage and twO-story brick
| building. Loss. 500 900; insurance, $50, 900.
] Two lives were lost.
| ATTEMPTS made recently by physicians
of South Carolina to discover whether the
| remains of Peter $. Ney, buried near Sails
/ bury in that State, were those Of Marshal
| Ney, of France, failed because of the decay
| of that part of the skull where the Marshal
had been trephined.
IL the Florida Legislature on the 4th the
vote for United States Senator was as fol
| lows: Perry p, Pasco 10, Bloxham 26, Good
rich IS, scattering z.
SEVEN ballots were taken for United
| States Senator in the Joint Assembly OF
| West Virginia on the 4th. The first stood
| Camden 49, Flick 80, Barber 5, Brown l,
Raymond 1. There are only insignificant
changes in the subsequent ballots. Senator
Camden then withdrew
THE Richmond a. Danville Railroad Com
| pany assumed control of the East Tennes.
| see, Virginia x Georgia on the 4th.
THE West Virginia House of Delegates
/ in lieu of acting on a bill TO regulate rail
road traffic adopted a JOINT resolution ap
proving the Interstate Commerce law
| passed by Congress.
! DIR. EDWARD KNOX, of Fentress County,
| Tenn, recently tied up naked his fourteen
| year-Old son for some boyish indiscretion
/ and whipped him with a blacksnake whiI
/ until he became unconscious, and at the
pleading of his mother was taken down
| The lad died next morning. The father
fed.
AT Wilmington, n. c., recently four negro
boys were killed by the accidental dis
charge of a double-barreled gun. Another
boy was wounded.
j. H. MADDOX, who was one Of the noted
witnesses from Louisiana in the electoral
count commission, died in Alexandria, Va
| recently.
/ CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER, of Martins
burg, has been elected United States Sena
| tor for West Virginia.
IT was recently reported that the rise il
the Ouachlta river in Arl1adelphia, La.
was fifteen feet, and fearful overflow
was impending. People were moving to
the hills, and much destruction of property
and stock was feared, especially as many
| cattle were IN the bottoms and could no
/ be driven out.
I. B. Boards private bank at Richmond
Tex, has closed with S64, coo liabilities anC
| S62 600 assets.
| Ex-senator CAMDEN, of West Virginia
was exonerated by the investigating com
mittee Of the bribery charges.